Losing my makeup bag.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Of choking on some food and having no one nearby to do the Heimlich maneuver.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2013 source ↗
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